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The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1887-05-19
An Unruiy Patient.

DIR. Souchon related q case of abscess of
the aXilla which was incised while the pa
tent was only partially under the inilu-
ence of the chloroform. AS the knife
penetrated the flesh the patient sprany TO
his feet, rushed at the case of instruments
which was near by, and had half opened
o drawer and was about seizing an instru-
ment when one of the students bravely
caught him He very soon quoted down.
The next day he said that he had just
come from grinding on u sugar planta-
ton. where number of Chinese were en-
ployed; that he was always quarreling
with them, and that, as he was going
under chloroform, the students around
him became gradually transformed, in his
mind, into Chinese; and that as the knife
penetrated him, though he felt no pain, he
was satisfied it was one of the Cinnamon
who had stabbed him. Hence the rush he
made to what he thought was his armory,
for a weapon to defend himself. Texas
Medical journal.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1887-05-19
Changes in Soldiers Dispositions.

''rhe greatest changes that | notice in
people are i'm disposition rather than in
appearance, although a change i'll the
spirit of man does make a change in
his appearance. This came from a man
whose face bore on it a look of sadness.
81 remember" he continued, ''threc wild
fellows who entered our company and
who for q year were among the most in
subordinate and the most difficult to
manage. There came in the next year
skirmish after skirmish and battle after
battle, and to all of these three men
rough and painful experiences. At the
end Of that year it seemed that they
jumped from the rollicking rowtlyism of
reckless young men to the serious and
courageous responsibility of ripe manhood.
In the last year of the war there was not
q single complaint against any of them,
but when they returned to their old
neighborhood scarcely one of their old
neighbors recognized them. The change
in character had brought about a change
in appearance or hearing that we who had
been with them had not noticed. Chi
cago Inter Ocean ''Curbstone Crayons."
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1887-05-19
A Study of "Star Routes"

All the routes wherein the mails are not
carried by either railroads or steamboats,
are known as star routes, because they
are marked in the official records with a
star. A study of star routes could be
made with profit There is n star route
in Idaho wherein a dog is made to serve
us mail carrier. A portion of the route
over the mountains is impossible In win
ter, and the contractors st. Bernard dog
has been trained to make the trip ut such
times. The distance is little moro than
ten miles, and it has to be trayersed once
every second day, and doggy Is always on
tlme, Down in Texas there Is q star route
nmety-five miles long across the plains,
on which there is daily service, although
but two small settlements are served.
The route extends from Poisedio to Ala
meto and Fort Davis. .a-
Another star route across the plains in
Texas over which daily service is made is
the route from Tayati to SaragOra and
Fort Stockton, distance scventy-five miles
The purpose of these two routes Is to get
the mails daily to the forts, and the
service costs many thousands of dollars
moro than the revenues amount to, they
being insignificant. 1t is such expensive
but necessary routes as these that draw
ON the great excuses Of revenues ADORE
expenditure of tho large offices of the
ountry.-Cincinnati Times-Star .g-E
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1887-05-19
Prisoners Ont of Sing Sing.

While the warden was talking three
prisoners came through the doorway from
below. They were no longer prisoners
when they entered the warden's Office
Their terms had just expired. They were
dressed in clothing cut by " Fifth avenue
tailor, and felt as proud as could be-
They bowed to the warden and walked
ont into the world free men.
at looks queer for prisoner without
money or friends to leave here with 800
suit of clothes on his back, but occa-
sionally he docs. When man comes here
his clothing is contiscated. II Is rcnos
waited, and if need be, repaired and hung
up for future inspection. The first pris-
oner discharged is entitled to pick out any
suit of clothing he takes a fancy TO. II
there is nothing to fit him we furnish him
with new suit. There is q man walking
about New York to-day wearing Jachne's
spring ovcrcoat which he hal on when he
came here, and some other eX-convict
selected his trousers. Another took the
Prince Albert coat and someone else chose
the vest of the ex-alderman. They were
all of the finest quality. Money and
jewclry are always returned to prisoner
at the expiration of his term. 1t fire.
qucntly happens that when man is sent
here the second time he will bring along
all his money and jewclry, knowing that
the state is. responsible for them. ".-Eew
York Mail and EXPRESS
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1887-05-19
Areminiscent Ghost Story.

After the close of one of the fights /
happened to pass a point occupied by some
surgeons, and to which the wounded were
being brought from the field. At the
moment | reached there an ambulance
stopped and wounded man was being
helped 10 the ground. AS there seemed
so.ae difficulty in getting him out, dis
mounted and assisted in lowering him
from the ambulance and laying him on
the ground As we did SO caught sight
OF the wounded mans face, and at once
recognized him as q printer named Seweil,
who several years before he'd been i'll my
employ in Davenport, Iowa.
He WAS too weak TO say anything. The
surgeon examined his wound, and an
nounccl that he was shot through the
body, and that lie was mOrtally wounded,
ami could live but few hours at the
most. ] staid u little while, then babe
him gO0d-by,; and lsft, sending On his
name in my next letter as mOrtally
SGtUntcd
I SS0lne four or five years after this Incl
EeTt, j was going cast one night on Ran
D5Iph street toward Clark. A trench
douS thunder storm was raging; the rain
fen in floods, and every second or two the
filed the night with q binding
viyj flash than usual lighted mp the scene,
&Ui i";t 1T that moment ran against Il
IlGn whose face | SAW distinctly, and in
sta0,ly recognized as that OF the long dead
SCwcll. For moment was half para
lyzcl at this sudden appearance of the
decd, and then l exclaimed:
SIS that you, Sewcll%'
The dead man answered eyes" in a
tone That indicated life, and passed on In
Tie storm and darkness. Twenty years
later business called Tic to Lincoln, Ncb.,
aud some local journal noticed my arrival.
4 portly gentleman soon after called, and
in lis cOuntcnance had no difficulty in
seeing the cid printer, the dying soldier,
the ghost Of the Chicago storm, and one
whom l soon found to lie one Of the solid
business men Of Nel,r;iska'S capital
''Poiiuto' III Chicago Times.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1887-05-19
NUMBER 80
French Nair Dresscrs.

Paris Is said 10 contain some 1000 hair
dressers, and the, corporation every year
gives 'Grand Soirec de CofTurc,' ;, when
awards arc distributed and ball is given.
The exhibition this year has just taken
place ut the Tivoli NauXhall rooms. A
large round table, covered with crimson
velvet and several hand mirrors, with a
corresponding number of chairs, were
placed on platform mt one end of the hall,
and presently the seats were occupied by
seven or eight ladies with blonde tresscs,
who held themselves in readiness to sub
NIT their flowing locks to the manipulation
of competing artists. .."
At signal from the president the rival
coiffeurs stepped to their respective places
and set TO work on the heads of their vic.
tins, each one undertaking a different
style Of dressing. The ladies, meanwhile,
make up for their tcdium of the process
by gazing in the mirrors. There WAS a
couture Louis XIV, very tasteful and free
from cXaggoration; then a Pompadour,
worthy the head of queen; u Marguerite
dc Faust and Marguerite dc Bourgogne,
botir very prettiiy eoiitriycd:: Il Couture
mythologiquc, made mp of mountains OF
false hair; a pyramide, Stimulating an
Egyptian monument, .sprinklcd with
flowers, and u very effective couture de
bal, consisting Of II few thick tresses
abundauuy sprinkled with sparkling pow
der Something, too, was allowed tn the
masters who excel in prompt improvisiou
and rapid seizing of effects; for there was
a prize given for coiffure imprevue,
wherein much deXtcrous and forcible work
appeared.
The successful competitor for this prize,
NJ. &. MousS:Sl. received gold medal
for his pains. His comrades all assert
that he was born with q caul. High
thinking and plain living are, iii fact, nec'
eSsary for those who would obtain the
highest honors in hair DRESSING; but the
true CoiTurc, like thc poet or the cook, is
born, not made No study or application
will compensate for the G:Nini aliquid,
without which u man cannot writcep
poems or successfully dress the heads Of
young ladics.-Paris Letter ...
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1887-05-19
CALIFORNIA; Beet Sugar Industry.

At AlvaraGo the beet sugar mills con.
sIlInc twenty-five tons of coal per day, we
arc told and they account for the,-great
fields of bcets, which produce successive
crops during the year, and seem capable
of supplying the vegetable, as % vegetable,
to the whole world. The size of the ro0i
may be imagined from the weight, which
is said to be from ten to twenty pounds
each. The entire region, indeed, between
Alameda and Los CGtoS about fifty niles
seems to be cultivated as 2 market gar,
den for San Francisco. There are whole
ranches Garms) devoted to the cultivation
of a speciality Strawberries, tomatoes, as
paragus and the like until the road enters
the Santa Clara valley, and We pass am
other beautiful town, San Jose, and are III
the al list Of one of the rich garden Spots
Of CALIFORNIA; land of grapes, melons.
gigs, oranges, apricots, lemons, plur1s,
pomegranatcs and every variety of TEN
perate and scmi-tropical fruit. Here are
whole orchards of almonds and acres OF
filberts, and groves from which the
oranges had only recently been plucked..--
New York Graphic.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1887-05-19
Bearing of EiSlcr,oss IJorsca,

Lord George PaGct, writing Of the Ga
nous charge Of the: Light Brigade at EeIa-
klava, says: "0nc incidcnt struck me very
forcibly about this time-tlle bearing Of
riderlcss horses in such circumstances. /
was of course riding by myself and clear
of the line, and for that reason was n
marked object for the poor dumb brutes.
They consequently made dashes at me,
some advancing with me considerable
distance; at one time as many as five on
my right and two OH my left cringing in
on me, and positively squeezing me as the
round shot came bounding by them !
remarked their eyes, hctokeping as keen
n sense of the pcrils around them as We
human beings experienced, and that is
saying good Gcal. The bearing of the
horse was riding,.jn contrast to these,
was remarkable. He had been struck, Int
showed no signs of fear, thus evinoing the
confidence of dumb animals in the supe-
FOR being. THE Argonaut
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1887-05-19
Old Ten.

The following is taken from an Old manuscript:
January 18th, 1iI, then reckoned with Sc,
and to balance all our accounts and there was
due him in old ten 60 As. 3D." Please tell me
what is meant by ''old ten sometimes, though
rarely, written old tennory OsNAR.
At the commencement of the last century,
owing to generalization of silver in France,
the heavy silver coins rapidly disappeared
from circulation in Great Britain, only the
light and worn ones (often 25 per cent. below
the Standard remaining. The government
undertook torecoin the entire remaining and
worn silver, and to make it full weight with
out raising its value. This only facilitated its
export and rendered its circulation more diff
cult at home; the real value of the coins
being 50 uncertain that the guinea fuctuated
in price, as measured by silver, from 21s. Cd.
to sos. 1t was therefore, in 1T74, declared
that silver should no longer be a tender, ex-
cept by weight, beyond CPS. The amount
due, as you have stated, was to he paid with
out reference to this, or i'll accordance with
the old tender. ...-..- a.. q
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1887-05-19
Now fN Keen Yonr Tcmner.

Macklin was u man of very irritable
temper and n severe taskmastcr at re-
hearsal, but he ma;lc sturdy aud habitual
efforts to keep his temper down. One
morning ut rehearsal one of the actors got
tired with over particularity. rs he called
it, and declared it worse than the Irussig,l
exercise.
Macklin paused, looked ut the refrae.
tory actor and quietly said: Suppose
we all go and sit down little In tlfs
green room" lie walked In and til,
actors followed; l,e sat down, and they
seated themselves; he then took out his
watch, looked at it, and laid IL ON thu
table "Nnw,' said he, well just sit
here one hour. The performers 40,
quicsced, but kept rather an awful silence.
AT the expiration Of the hour Macklir
took up his witch. Now he said,
1--WE pre ull In good hunor and we IL 20
upon the stage and begin our rehearsal"
Detroit Free Press
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1887-05-19
Ice as q Luxury.

In Germany ice is precious. The ice.
aian takes his cart up to u customers
door and carefully weighs tho" ice out 10
him in little bucket, A grocer, who i'm
America would buy say at least 500
paupfls OF ice, in Germany buys five
pounds. The iceman keeps his stock
under lock and key, it is so valuable. The
ice is chopped up fine like loaf sugar, and
IS weighed out in q spring scale. In
weighing it the dealer is careful to give
no more than the exact amount, just as
much as the grocery man here is when
weighing out butter at fifty cents q pound.
One wagon in Germany will supply the
demands of 35, 900 persons. A family ice
box holds about two pounds of chopped
&C. and only well-to-do people can afford
.he IuXury,-New York Mail and EXPRESS
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1887-05-19

The crop destroying rabbit appears to
= not the only animal plague in Austria
j.. The decay of the forests is traced by
Rev. y. Macpherson of the Royal Society
If New South Wales, to the Opossums.
After much investigation it was ascer-
tanned that a single animal would devour
about 200 leaves of the Eucalyptus, or
blue gum tree, in night; proving that
the $4,000 opossums killed annually in
the county of Victoria were sufficient to
destroy upward of $4,000 trees and lay
bare space of 700 acres, or more than
square mile.-Arkausaw Traveller.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1887-05-19
The London key I,ur,an.n

"The Key Bureau Gate the London
Latchkey company Is curious outcome
of high state of civilization. 1t pro-
fcsses, for the sum of one shilling, yir-
tually to guarantee subscribers firm los
Ing their Keys. A tablet, to Ee affixed to
them, Il. Ssued to each person. with the
address of the company engraved ON il
and statement that five shillings reward
will be given ON the key being brought tn
the Office, when it Is at once returned, free
OF charge, to the owner. 1t is an ingenious
plan enough, but it would also be in
genious to keep on losing ones keys and
getting them conveyed to the bureau by
some trusty messenger, who would after
ward divide with us the five shillings.
Among other really practical advantages
of this institution, it is grimly suggested
that in case of sudden death the bureau
would prove "a most convenient channel of
Identification Argonaut.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1887-05-19
A CITY coURTSHIP.

A CITY cOURTSHIP.
The proper place for counting,
BY the story books reporting,
Is some lane or meadow pathway, out Of sight of
With the sweetness blowing over
From the fields Of beans and clover.
And the skylark dropping westward as the sun
goes down.
But I've met my little Sally:
At the mouth of Dawson's alley.
As we walked along together towards the dome
Of st. Pauls,
Mid the jostling crowd that passes
Meath tho glaring lamps and gases,
And the shouting Of tho drivers and the news
boys calls
Aud the lily of the valley ...
That gave my little Sally.
Was the faded penny bouquet that a-fower girl
sells;
She has never seen one growing,
And it. easy to be showing,
For its birthplace Is in Dreamland that's beyond
Bow Bells.
On ! It pains me ia our waiisipe,---
All the oath3 and shameful talking,
And tho folks that brush her passing, and the
glances bold:
But though evil things may touch her,
They can never hurt or smutch her.
For she turns tho dirt to Sweetness as flower
the mold .
Nay, it's not in country places,
Mid the fields and simple faces.
Out Of sight and sound of evil, that pure heart
grows;
But it's here in London city,
In the sin. and shame, and pity;
For tho pure heart draws its pureness from the
wrong it knows.
When my Sally's sweetness found me,
Twas like the men around me,
I was coarse, and low, aud selfish, as the beast
that dies;
But her grace began to win me-,
And my heart was changed within me.
And learned to pray from gazing in my darling s
eyes.
Frederic Langbridge in Spectator.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1887-05-19
Christendom.s peculiar Propert,

deaths heads, graves, knclls, blacks
and tombs" are the peculiar property OF
Christendom, being almost unknown to
pagan antiquity. The elder DisraeH, in
mentioning the fact that the skeleton, as
q symbol of death, is an invention of the
middle ages, says: 'tThe ancient artists
so rarely attempted TO personify Death
that we have not discovered single re-
voting image of this nature in all the
works of antiquity" This being so, the
conception of death as an awful specter,
and the wearing of gloomy black as a COM
pulsory tribute to his grimness, can hardly
be regarded as mark Of our superiority
over our pagan predecessors The Forum,
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1887-05-19
Missed Making a Fortune.

Some one once asked John Jacob Astor
about the largest sum of money he ever
made Mt any one time in his life. He said
in reply: ''Thc largest sum ever missed
making was in reference to the purchase
of Louisiana in connection with De Witt
Clinton, Gouycrncur Morris and others.
We intended TO purchase all of that prov
ince of the. Emperor Napoleon and then
sell it TO President Jefferson at the same
price, merely retaining the public domain,
charging 12 per cent. commission on the
purchase" 1t fell through, however, for
some trilling cause or other. Had they
succeeded Mr.. Astor estimated that he
should have made about $50, 200, 000,-
Dry Goods Chronicle. -. ~ ~. =.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1887-05-19
Once Was Enough.

A man who got up i'm his sleep the other
night inadvertently placed his foot on a
small spool of cotton at the head Of the
stairs and landed ut the bottom rather
emphatically without touching more than
two steps. He was instantly aroused from
his somnambulistic state, and caressilsg
u large lump in the occipital region, feel
ingly remarked: "Well, this is the second
time I've been fool enough to go down a
toboggan slide, and you bet it will be the
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Herald.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1887-05-19
Mrs. nInckny,s sannhire.

Mrs. Mackay's latest acquisition I'm the
line of exquisite gems is q sapphire of bril-
liant hue, not quite the largest of its kind
extant, but, nevertheless, one of the most
valuable. Its former posscssor, n Russian
prince, whom necessity drove to scpara-
ton with the gem, looked long and low
ingly at il before consenting to let it go,
hut the $780, 600 which the bonanza kings
wife offered for the bit of stone finally
overcamc his reluctance, and the gem is
bers.-Philadelphia Times.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1887-05-19
Possibilities of Wood PUN.

A writer in Canadian paper, speaking
of the possibilities of pulp as Il substitute
for lumber in the manufacture of furhi-
ture and other articles, now exclusively
made of wood, calls attention to the ne
sources afforded by northern Canada for
the best pulp making woods. 1t is found
that in some localities the forests are now
at the best age for pulping purposes, and
capable of yielding from forty to 120
cords per acre, if the whole of the timber
were utilized. BY mixing the pulp with
clays, stealite, asbestos, plumbago, mica,
etc., substances of every possible color
and compactness may be produced New
York Sun.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1887-05-19

The proper place for counting,
By the story books reporting,
s some lane or meadow pathway, out Of sight Of
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1887-05-19
Effects OF Environment.

Evil environment produces and perpet-
lates bad heredity; while good environ
ncnt tends to its eradication. No man is
al bad. The environment brings out and
develops the tendencies in each to which
1t is magnetic. No reform in the long run
can prevail which does not look toward
the creation of sober and pure and law
abiding stock.-Andover Review.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1887-05-19
Wasted Literary Labor

First Liternri m-Ha! How are YOU.
old fellow? What are you busy with,
newspaper WORK or stories?
Second ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS work.
I'm translating French fun for weekly
paper.
f. LIS translating hard work?
S. L.-Well, it involves a certain
amount of labor.
F. LII should think it would be easier
for you to copy the fun from the Ameri-
can papers before it is stolen by the Paris
ian press. If you did that you wouldn't
reed to translate it at an.-Boston
Courier
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1887-05-19
Astonishinr promntness.

One of our school teachers was endeav-
oring to explain to a small boy in her
class the meaning of the word collision. I"
She said: Suppose two boys running on
the street should come together real hard,
what would there be?' ga fight, re-.
sponded the little fellow loudly and with
astonishing promptness, and the teacher
gave II Up. -Bapgor Commercial.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1887-05-19
Tracts I'm India.

Last year the North India Tract society
put into circulation 214,S21 vernacular
books and tracts, most of the tracts of
from fifteen to fifty pages. OF these the
most popular, judged by sales, was a tract
of eighteen pages, containing a selection
of Hindu hymns. Over 5000 copies Of this
were sold during eleven months. ~Rrnos
s -~-,r
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1887-05-19
Behind the Faotlictits.

The people who are born to the sock
and buskin enjoy n ''camaratlerie" into
which no other less fortunate person en-
tiers. Those persons who, as a rule, make
the best actors and actresses arc those
who arc born in the profession. The child
brought up behind the footlights is sure
to know the minor duties Of the stage
better than the inspired genius who shall
study them for yeurs.-NIrs. John Sher-
xyonl